Wednesday, February 9, 2011
(your name here)
"So, we got a nice comment from (commenter's real name)," I said to frances not too long ago.
We have a small handful of fellow bloggers / twitter friends / loyal readers / etc. whose real names we know (and they know ours)... And when we talk about them, some are pretty much always their real names, some are sort of interchangable, or end up being something awkward like "(real name)... you know, (fake name)," and then there's one or two that even though we know their real names, they'll kinda always be (fake name) to us.
Of the three I can think of whose numbers are in my phone, one is stored as (fake name), one as (real name) / (fake name), and one just as (real name). And that one used to be (real name) / (fake name) too, but it was kinda long and unwieldy that way, and that was the only (real name) i knew anyway...
So, what about all of you? What do you do? What do you call US behind our backs...? ;-)
-d.
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It gets to be weird and difficult sometimes. With the events I've attended in NYC where some in attendance are bloggers, some are just twitter-pervs and some are neither it gets....confusing.
I will say that 95% of the people who do know my real name will still call me Lilly when talking to me. Of course that might be partially because they had to call me Lilly when we were at the events.
While Lilly is a normal enough name, when I'm introducing myself to bloggers/twitterers, I have to then do this stupid James Bondish intro. I say I'm Lilly then I have to quantify it by saying that the blog/twitter is Dangerous Lilly.
For me, if your blog/twitter name contains a real enough name, that's probably what I'll still call you because to me that is the version of you I know best.
The few blogger/tweeters whose names I know, I use them if we meet in real life. For those I've never met - I still use their assumed names.
Though for you two, I think in terms of real names though we haven't met.
Well you 2, I call Francis and Daniel, since I don't know your real names!
My phone is a mish-mash of how names are entered, some it's first and last, some just first, some first + blogging alias. Depends how well I know them.
You guys are (real names) to Mark and I... but sadly.. I don't think I have any bloggers in my phone.
What does that say about me? hmmmmm..
But, I am looking forward to the day we are invited to see your next place!!!!
Depends on my wife's memory. LOL
This made me laugh! In my 4th year of blogging, I have revealed my real name to a small group only. But even then, I have mixed up real/fake when in a hurry in emails. Never on someone's blog yet (thankfully).
I've changed my moniker at least four times, from "Unfaithful Soccer Mom" to "Cheating Wife" "CW" and now "Chloe". I have to laugh, it's a bit too much when I think about it.
I have only three bloggers (not counting my blogger/lover) in my phone, and they are all three dear close friends. It is under their real name, btw!
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